The Data Privacy Detective returns from a short sabbatical to recommend a New Year’s Resolution for 2025 - make this the Year of the Passkey.

Data privacy best practice moved from passwords to multi-factor authentication. But this has not stopped the increasing online theft of assets and identities. Password-based technology is failing to stem financial and other losses that increase each year. Passkeys are on the rise.

A passkey is a form of authentication technology that simplifies our online experience and increases online safety. This Episode explores why passkeys constitute best practices in 2025, while saving time in connecting with websites of our choice. Consider this great migration and why it’s worth spending time now to use passkeys. For those in the Google and Microsoft worlds, explore how these tech giants are making it easy and essential for users to join this shift in how we protect our online data privacy. Here are helpful links:

https://www.google.com/account/about/passkeys/

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/signing-in-with-a-passkey-09a49a86-ca47-406c-8acc-ed0e3c852c6d

Happy new year 2025!

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